Capturing Crime

by Carol Taylor (Illustrator), Greg Marquis

Quality coffee table style publication involving New Brunswick Law courts, judges, prosecutors, witnesses, defense teams, evidence in red bags, all drawn from an artist’s perspective. The good guys, the ‘bad’ guys, the top dozen or more stories over the last three decades from the New Brunswick courts, but with many prominent within Canada or of national significance. (e.g., both trials of Alan Légère, the Winters and Romeo murder trials, child molestation and neglect, Premier Hatfield“marijuana case”, Columbian drug smuggling, the Bourque RCMP murders in Moncton, the Irving Empire in court … and more) all wrapped up in one tidy package, with full colour images and well constructed verse explaining each of those trials. Artist Carol Taylor has been sketching in the courts for over thirty years, while her documentation of those years covering a wide variety of court cases, is both factual and entertaining.

104 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2019

Reviews

[Rainey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of Taylor’s drawings from three decades of being a courtroom artist in the New Brunswick court system. The text is inexpertly edited, but I enjoyed the exploration of her experiences and of the details of cases I knew primarily as childhood bogeymen.